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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The quality of being gauzy; gauzy texture or appearance.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The quality of being gauzy

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness.

Examples

  • “- Echidne Of The Snakes - women, the press, and gauziness.”

    Friday Blogaround

  • “Instead, the cameramen used lenses labeled in ascending gauziness: "A through D.”

    The Huffington Post: Claudia Lonow: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Could I Be One Too?

  • “Karen O aside, Maximum Balloon tilts towards female vocalists (Holly Miranda; a woman called Ambrosia Parsley) with little to contribute but the gauziness of the just-roused.”

    The Guardian: Maximum Balloon: Maximum Balloon

  • “A cold mist shimmered over the bayou like sheer curtains, cloaking the surroundings in a surreal gauziness.”

    Simon & Schuster: Captured by Moonlight

  • “This poem by Anne Marie Macari of New Jersey perfectly captures the gauziness of those lights as well as the loneliness that often accompanies travel.”

    Archive 2009-04-01

  • “Hersh should have acknowledged the gauziness of his proof.”

    Newsweek: Pool Parties In Camelot?

  • “Mr. DePastino gets behind the gauziness, fills in details and extends our knowledge of Mauldin's remarkable postwar career as a newspaper editorial cartoonist.”

    The Wall Street Journal: The Cartoonist Who Drew Fire

  • “Either one little ruffled drawers leg sags down, or the petticoat is longer than the dress skirt, or the waistband is too tight, or mamma has failed to make allowance in the underclothing for the gauziness of the outer sheathing.”

    A Woman's Impression of the Philippines

  • “It had once been delicately blue and gauzy, but its gauziness hung in crushed folds and its blue was almost grey.”

    The Shuttle

  • “Very lovely was Lady Kirkaldy's impression as she saw a slender figure in a dark gray linen dress, and a face of refined, though not intellectual, beauty and sweetness, under a large straw hat with a good deal of white gauziness about it, and the curtsey was full of natural grace.”

    Nuttie's Father

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